'Kids These Days' Convinces You That Millennials Aren't Ruining Everything | WBUR News

Malcolm Harris' views of the cultural problems that define the generation grow out of his vision for a better society, one where labor earns a much higher share of national production and inequality is lower.

Support WBUR Malcolm Harris' "Kids These Days." (Amy Gorel/WBUR) The conventional wisdom about millennials is not flattering. They’re narcissists. They can’t talk to one another. They’re destroying hoards of industries, from beer to casual dining to bar soap . Nothing is safe from the young cultural revolutionaries, remaking the world as they see fit. It’s an attractive story, the belief that the young are using the leavening power of the free market to chart their own course. If only it were true. Instead, as Malcolm Harris, an editor for The New Inquiry and an early Occupy Wall Street protes

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